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through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
Isak Dinesen
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
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It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
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In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an airy message, an aromatic echo of the dreams during the short summer night.
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I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
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There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
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I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.
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I don't believe in evil I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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We invent the past and remember the future.
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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
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To be a person is to have a story to tell.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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Be not afraid of absurdity do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
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